[KarlInOhio]

The primary, and perhaps only, purpose for the 14th amendment was to keep southern states from denying citizenship to newly freed slaves because their parents weren't citizens. Since everyone involved in that is long gone, it is time tco reconsider who we want to be citizens and amend the Constitution appropriately. Right now I think that citizenship should be limited to the children of citizens and legal immigrants and denied to the children of those on tourist and business visas and illegals.

[Carry_Okie]

The primary, and perhaps only, purpose for the 14th amendment was to keep southern states from denying citizenship to newly freed slaves because their parents weren't citizens.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 had already done that. The primary, and perhaps only, REAL purpose for the 14th amendment citizenship clause, as drafted, may have been to confer the rights of citizenship to corporations, as Conkling and Bingham later admitted. You can read about that here.